WoW! Have You Checked Your Cupboards Lately For Salt?!

Oh dear, lol! I'm CAUGHT, Jeeez, and I thought I was only having 400-500.
I just checked mine & here's what I came up with even though I have no salt in my house.
115/cup milk
170/bread, per slice
190/my fave jalapeno cheese per slice
160/cup yogurt
105/6 cookies

Soooo, what I will confess to eating of the above (lately, under stress) comes to 1515mg a day.
I would say most of the time when I'm not eating ALL of the above (in addition to other stuff, non processed, therefore no content label) that I'm around 800-1000mg/day, semi-wild guess.
Did you guys notice that they base the %/daily amount on 2400 mg/day? I thought that was supposed to have been lowered to 2000/da, but that's not what the labels say.

Post Edited By Moderator (Teri16) : 8/11/2005 6:44:40 PM (GMT-6)

Thanks will check out the site later on today Julia. we do have lots of salt everywhere . i cantaste food and say oh my gosh how salty this is.  I do use salt in my home made bread but it makes 36 slices. and then other things like fruit and veggies too

 

1 raw medium carrot=25mg

 

1/2 C raw broccoli=20

 

celery 1 stalk=35 mg

 

garlic raw 3 cloves=2mg

 

 small baked potatoe with skin and nothing on it=16mg

peas 1/2 cup=214

 

apples=0

small banana=1

canaloupe 1 Cup=14mg

Folks cranberry sauce plain 1/2 cup=40 mg

 lets all  watch our sodium and  Julia again thanks foir the link.

heidi

Julia, we are not allowed to advertise other sites that are selling anything... :( Hugs, Teri

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"Because he is he and I am I."......E. V. Lucas

i love salt but its a no no i use the fake stuff and find i use more pepper on every thing

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No problem, Terri

If anyone would like to know about the website I mentioned, please email me.

Julia

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I use alot of spices but easy on hot spices husband has  Barrettes  Esphogous and  Diverticolous so no seds no spicy foods.  I use alot of lemon and lime zest fresh ginger and  sometimes for a tang cumin or curry powder.

Lets hope peper wilnot be bad for any of us.

Heidi

i always thought curry power was spicey that the indians use here in ga is

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Bob, curry and cumin are both spicey, curry actually has cumin in it! Though, I would suppose it probably depends on who makes it.

I'm not a big fan of either - just my taste buds :) but I love pepper!

Hugs, Teri :)

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"Because he is he and I am I."......E. V. Lucas

stanley likes that hot pepper sauce and flakes even though it is a NO NO on his dietary diet he still uses it. Not me Ijust use it for him if I use any of that I get mone out then I add those spices.

Heidi

Before my problems I used to eat those grilled stuffed burritos from Taco Bell 2 at a time..They have 2090 mg of sodium each!...I`ve found though that in all the "low sodium" things they replace the sodium with potassium and in excess that is bad for you also

You are right, Sara! Especially people that are on diuretics - you need to try and keep a happy balance between sodium and potassium.
Thanks! Hope you are doing well?!

Hugs, Teri :)

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"Because he is he and I am I."......E. V. Lucas

I bought some all organic cury powder 6 months ago here are the ingredients

 

Cumin

Fennel

Turmetic

Fenugreek

Coriander

Mustard

Flour

Gingerroot

Black Pepper

Allspice

Cayenne

it is salt free and MSg free but all those ingredienbts in allntural Cury powder wonder whatn is in the non oprganic kind?

Like I siad  6 months. then my son told me about crazy mixed up alt that is good I say what is the doium he siad 250mg on 1/4 T I said ok enough to high for me.

Yep Sara  their is a,lot of sopdium in the fast foods I have abook that lists all the fast food places and sodium if yuo want the name of the book folks e-mail me and I will e-mail yuo the name of the book and author ok.

Heidi

Sara, are you watching too much of the Simpson's?! ROFL

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"Because he is he and I am I."......E. V. Lucas

strawbery sugar wafers 7 g fat,25mg of sodium,12g sugar  I think these are the lowest cookies in sodium next to graham crackers and vanilla wafers.

Heidi

I love them with lowfat cream cheese on it for a snak too oh so good.

Heidi

I found another excellent link to Sodium and how much is recommended for us on a daily basis -- Check it Out!